Welcome to Code City!

Carl Malamud, the President and Founder of Public.Resource.Org, is a freedom fighter, Internet innovator, and really hardworking guy. He's the author of 8 books, the winner of the Berkman Award from Harvard "for his extraordinary contributions to the Internet's impact on society," the Pioneer Award from the EFF, the Bill Farr Award from the First Amendment Coalition, and last month was awarded one of 5 grants from Google's Project 10^100, $2M that he'll use to build law.gov, and make all primary legal materials in the United States available to all, for free.

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[shawngo]

"Open Source leads to better standards!" - AMEN!

[westrajc]

Current Code System is "Not about public service, but private gain." "Our government must be a shining city on a hill" Ronald Reagan "Giving someone a monopoly on our laws hurts innovation as much as justice." ""Open Source" America's "Operating System" isn't just a good idea, it's the LAW!"

[markdavidburger]

Excellent Point.

[MeansDarling]

Very cool. I didn't know that a lot of code is copyrighted. Worrying.